Video and audio are not working

For some reason, since yesterday I cannot play any video or audio file both on my computer and in any browser (for example on YouTube, etc). They just freeze at the start. I have no idea what the problem is. Would appreciate any help.

so what did you do - install something, uninstall, updated, changed some settings?
also post formated output from:
inxi -Fazy

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I usually update my system very often (almost every day) and I initially thought that this might be the problem, because I was using unstable branch. So, today I switched to testing branch and then downgraded all the packages using sudo pacman -Syyuu, but it didn’t help. Other than that I don’t think I did anything special.

The output is following:

inxi -Fazy
System:
  Kernel: 5.10.114-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64
    root=UUID=d6bb9390-ceae-49fd-a51c-31c54ab7aa57 rw quiet
    udev.log_priority=3 acpi_osi=! "acpi_osi=Windows 2009"
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.5 tk: Qt v: 5.15.3 info: latte-dock
    wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Micro-Star product: GP62M 7REX v: REV:1.0
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Micro-Star model: MS-16J9 v: REV:1.0 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends v: E16J9IMS.31C date: 10/24/2017
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 27.6 Wh (91.7%) condition: 30.1/43.2 Wh (69.7%)
    volts: 12.0 min: 10.8 model: MSI BIF0_9 type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: N/A
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse serial: <filter>
    charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i7-7700HQ bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake
    family: 6 model-id: 0x9E (158) stepping: 9 microcode: 0xEC
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB
    L3: 6 MiB desc: 1x6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 899 high: 900 min/max: 800/3800 scaling:
    driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 895 2: 900 3: 900 4: 900
    5: 900 6: 900 7: 900 8: 900 bogomips: 44817
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf
    mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: spec_store_bypass
    mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
  Type: spectre_v1
    mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
    STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 630 vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: i915
    v: kernel ports: active: DP-1 off: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2
    bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:591b class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile]
    vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: N/A alternate: nouveau pcie: gen: 3
    speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1c8c class-ID: 0302
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 display-ID: :0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 677x381mm (26.65x15.00")
    s-diag: 777mm (30.58")
  Monitor-1: DP-1 pos: primary model: AOC Q2781 serial: <filter> built: 2018
    res: 2560x1440 hz: 60 dpi: 109 gamma: 1.2 size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.23")
    diag: 685mm (27") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 2560x1440 min: 720x400
  Monitor-2: eDP-1 note: disabled model: ChiMei InnoLux 0x15d6 built: 2015
    res: 2560x1440 dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6")
    diag: 394mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.3
    direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel CM238 HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a171 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: JMTek LLC. USB PnP Audio Device type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-3.1:4 chip-ID: 0c76:161e
    class-ID: 0300
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.114-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.51 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak] driver: iwlwifi
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0
    chip-ID: 8086:24fb class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2400 Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: alx v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1969:e0a1 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 3168 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-10:6 chip-ID: 8087:0aa7 class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.36 TiB used: 90.41 GiB (6.5%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung
    model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
    rev: 1B2QEXM7 temp: 52.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: HGST (Hitachi) model: HTS541010B7E610
    size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 1A01 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 62.5 GiB size: 61.22 GiB (97.95%) used: 26.33 GiB (43.0%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p7 maj-min: 259:7
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 300 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6 maj-min: 259:6
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 141.36 GiB size: 138.08 GiB (97.68%)
    used: 64.08 GiB (46.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p8 maj-min: 259:8
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 60.0 C pch: 56.0 C mobo: 27.8 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 243 Uptime: 28m wakeups: 3 Memory: 15.55 GiB
  used: 2.49 GiB (16.0%) Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers:
  gcc: 11.2.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: pacman: 1396 lib: 397 Shell: Bash
  v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.15

so you were using unstable… try switching to stable, downgrade, reboot and check…
if it doesnt work try creating a new user and test with it

Thanks for your suggestion, but unfortunately it didn’t help

From yesterday’s Unstable Announcement update:

With Wireplumber 0.4.10 14 we deprecated pipewire-media-session, as upstream stopped developing it. Here  the note from Arch. UPDATE: The change was reversed  for now.
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Removing pulseaudio and installing manjaro-pipewire instead is actually the only thing that helped me.

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